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Plot Summary:
Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
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A Taxing Woman (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt. Her job is complicated by a growing sympathy for the rogue and by political pressure to lay off.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surreal, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
Plot Summary:
Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, art house, mind bending, psychedelic, political, surreal, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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A Sense of Humor (2011)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer abducts two stand-up comedians after they mock him as part of their on-stage act. If they teach him how to be funny, he might let them live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Illegally Yours (1988)
Plot Summary:
Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a complicated web of murder, blackmail and perjury, and still trying to win over the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Flypaper (1999)
Plot Summary:
Greed, lust and fate bring together a motley collection of oddballs and lowlifes for some rather sticky situations in Hoch's twisted neo-noir debut. Three separate but interconnected stories, all set on a deceptively sunny day in California and centered around one million dollars in cash, inspire Hoch's quirky characters to commit acts both devious and depraved in an attempt to make the big score.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sensual, independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending
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Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are about to get out of jail, and this time, Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. Soon the Boys will all be rich. At least that's what they've told the parole board. But when they arrive back at the park, they find it's not the same old Sunnyvale - and it's not the same old Jim Lahey, Trailer Park Supervisor.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, semi serious, mockumentary, light, epic, offbeat, realistic, not serious, black comedy
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A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Miss Nobody (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered secretary discovers that she has a talent for murder as she ascends the corporate ladder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, captivating, witty, semi serious, detective, horror comedy, psychological, offbeat, realistic
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Boystown (2007)
Plot Summary:
Victor works in a real estate agency in the well-known Chueca neighborhood of Madrid. He hides a terrible secret: he makes apartments available for sale by murdering the old ladies owners that live in them. Then, refurbishes and decorates the apartments to sell them to gay couples with high purchasing power. His ultimate objective is to transform Chueca into a kind of London Soho area.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, biting, suspense, queer cinema
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The Red Inn (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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The Census Taker (1984)
Plot Summary:
When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their wit's end, they kill the census taker and with the help of their friends Pete (Timothy Bottoms) and Eva (Austen Tayler), must hide the body from a determined investigator.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Heads (1994)
Plot Summary:
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Scotland, PA (2001)
Plot Summary:
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, witty, disturbing, talky, parody, realistic, not serious, black comedy, clever
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Keeping Mum (2005)
Plot Summary:
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, witty, light, funny, humorous, feel good, offbeat, realistic, art house
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Down the Drain (1990)
Plot Summary:
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret information.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy
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Clay Pigeons (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay inadvertently befriends a serial killer named Lester Long, who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, humorous, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Serial Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, realistic, neo noir
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9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, campy
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Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in a separate storyline not related to the "Trailer Park Boys" Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, stylized, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, cult classic, hilarious, epic, dark comedy
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Dirty Deeds (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense, dark comedy, sex comedy, grim
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Guilty as Charged (1991)
Plot Summary:
Rod Steiger stars as a vigilante who with the aid of his helper, Isaac Hayes, captures men whom he considers evil and executes them in his homemade electric chair.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, cult film
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Legal Eagles (1986)
Plot Summary:
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: entertaining, melancholic, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, clever, exciting, detective, sweet
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My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend , to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, light, hilarious, humorous, inspirational, light hearted, uplifting, epic, satirical
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Pep Squad (1998)
Plot Summary:
Set in and around a small town high school in Kansas, Beth is a naive senior student who asks her two new friends, the slick and outgoing Julie, and her boyfriend Scott to help her cover up the accidental killing of the hated school principal. But they are observed by Terra, a student nominated for prom queen, who blackmails them into rigging the election in her favor. Undaunted, Beth, Julie and Scott turn to the most popular/hated student Cherry to kill Terra for them. Cherry agrees to the hit, but only if she gets Terra's nomination for prom queen and the crown as well which sets off more complications for all involved.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, dark comedy
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Female Trouble (1974)
Plot Summary:
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. She runs away from home, is raped, becomes a single mother, criminal and glamorous model before her inevitable rendezvous with the electric chair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, controversial, cult classic, humorous, surreal
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Kids in America (2005)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, funny, teen
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Sugar & Spice (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as bank robbery. But the A-Squad does things their way -- with sugar and spice -- forever changing their friendship, their future and the nation's notion of teen spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, semi serious, teen, cult classic, retro, dark, twisted
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Heathers (1988)
Plot Summary:
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, teen, witty, semi serious, aesthetic, realistic, retro, parody
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One Night at McCool's (2001)
Plot Summary:
Every man has a different recollection of the beautiful young woman who wreaked havoc on their lives during one heated night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, stylized, witty, not serious, erotic, entertaining
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The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Plot Summary:
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbors figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit, suburban style.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, light, suspense, dark comedy, semi serious, hilarious, feel good